Microsoft to quit mobile phone design, manufacturing: Finnish newspaper

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http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/QUIGJAhQdicf3f0QFD4mbw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3NfbGVnbztmaT1maWxsO2g9ODY7cT03NTt3PT EzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2016-05-25T085804Z_1006990001_LYNXNPEC4O0LN_RTROPTP_2_CTEC H-US-MICROSOFT-PHONES.JPG (http://news.yahoo.com/microsoft-quit-mobile-phone-design-manufacturing-finnish-newspaper-085804056--finance.html)Microsoft Corp will stop designing and manufacturing mobile phones, Finland's Helsingin Sanomat newspaper reported on its website citing an unnamed source. A spokesman for Microsoft Finland declined to comment on the report which said the company had invited its Finland-based phone developers to a meeting in Espoo on Wednesday. The U.S. company entered the phone business in 2014 by buying Finnish firm Nokia's once-dominant handset unit for about $7.2 billion.



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